Send commands automatically at startup

goofylife · 06-20-2018, 12:08 PM

Hi,

I want RainbowStream(CLI Twitter client) to launch at boot, and when launched, run the "home 10"- command wich brings forth the 10 latest tweets in the timeline.

I edited ~/.bashrc and added the following at the end:

rainbowstream
home 10

This launched rainbowstream, but "home 10" was first launched when rainbowstream was closed.

Is there a way to run commands within an application automaically?

pan64 · 06-20-2018, 12:50 PM

I think it is the tool expect.

scasey · 06-20-2018, 12:53 PM

~/.bashrc is not referenced at boot, but at login. Is that what you meant?

goofylife · 06-20-2018, 01:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by scasey

~/.bashrc is not referenced at boot, but at login. Is that what you meant?

Its on a Raspberry Pi, and its set up to automatically log in as the pi -user, so yes, it seems to work fine for the launching of rainbowstream at least.

ondoho · 06-20-2018, 02:44 PM

maybe rainbowstream has command line options?
have you tried 'raibowstream --help' or some such?

X-LFS-2010 · 06-21-2018, 01:15 AM

did you try this at command prompt?

# rainbowstream & sleep 2 ; home 10 &

what works at command prompt if that does not?